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EXCURSION TO EASTERN PAMIR, SUMMER 1894.

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to the Shinde, perhaps joining the Chicheklik-su before reaching it. Kata-kokmoinak is also flat and comfortable with no living rock.

As the highway from Tash-kurgan to Tar- bashi and Tengi - lar crosses these two passes it is obvious that GOES means them w en e speaks of the mountains of Ciacialith. And probably HÜAN-CHUANG means the basin of Chicheklikkul when speaking of the plain surrounded by the four mountains belonging to the eastern chain of the Ts'ung-ling. On STEIN'S Map of j5orlions of Chinese Turkistan and Kansu, Sheet No. 3 I cannot identify his Chichiklik Maidan, at which he arrived from Kara-kelp along the brook that drains the Chichiklik. His Chichiklik Dawan, on the other hand, is in perfect accordance with my Chichiklik-davan as being the watershed between the little lakes and the Tar-baski. If his Chichiklik Maidan is identical with my basin of Chicheklik-kul, our altitudes differ too much, for he has 4,573 m. and I have 4,458 m.

On the west side of Kala-kok-moinak we enter the valley of Kok-moinakningjilga which gradually becomes more and more gravelly and narrow. During one hour's ride the valley was as narrow and difficult as the Tengi-Ear, filled with blocks and water. At some protected places were still snow-patches and ice-sheets, across which we rode. Kökuse and Yaslik are tributary valleys, the latter from the south, the former with a road to yeilaks. Then the valley becomes a little broader and is called Darshal. Finally we reach its end, and see in front of us an extensive plain, Tagarma, with the snow-covered Sarikol Range in the background, and to

the right parts of southern Mus-lagh-ala.

At the aul of Kara-kechu we crossed the stream of Tegerman-su, also called Tagarma-su. We left to our right the valley of Tegerich, and camped at Shärnä" on the Tagarma plain. The Shärnä&-su here comes down from the southern Mus-tagh-ata, which was said to be called Kara-g-orum (i. e. korum).

From Igis-yar to Tagarma we had now crossed the Kashgar System of Mountains for the second time. On the first crossing we had followed one and the same river, Gez-darya, the whole way. Now, we first travelled in the drainage

area of the Keng-kol up to the Kashka-su Pass, west of which we entered the drainage-area of the Charling River. West of Ter-art we kept sticking to the

area of the Pas-rabat up to Chicheklik-davan, after which followed the drainage

area of Chicheklik-su. West of Kala-kok-moinak we were in the area of the Tagarma brooks, which flow to the Shinde or Taghdumbash-darya.

Two years before the journey I have just described, Lord DUNMORE had travelled through the same region. Neither his text nor his small-scale maps allow us to follow his journey in detail. August 17th 1892 he left Yarkand and rode

by Yakarik (Yaka-arik) and K   obviously ara-Dawan, obviouslassed   the same as the one crossed

by YOUNGHUSBAND in 1890. Then he

passed by Kiaz Aghzay at the junction of the